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Dream Away Lodge, Becket, MA – Tonight
Tonight I return to Dream Away Lodge in Becket. I love it there. Hidden away in the woods in Western Massachusetts it was a former haunt of Bob Dylan, Rick…
Read MoreEavesdropping with Peter Pan – Adventures in Public Transport
February 25th, 2017 Cambridge, MA I read somewhere once that eavesdropping is good for writing. Hearing that gave me great freedom and shameless confidence. In eavesdropping. It is unseasonably warm.…
Read MoreLast Gig of Tour in Munich Tonight
February 19th, 2017 – On the Road to Saarbrücken I am in the back of the car on the way to Saarbrücken. Well Saarlouis, outside of Saarbrücken. The sun is…
Read MoreRIP Robert Fisher – Groningen – Remscheid – Rees
RIP Robert Fisher ( Willard Grant Conspiracy) Sometime in the early 2000s Mick at the Pine Lodge in Myrtleville asked me to open for Willard Grant Conspiracy. I was blown…
Read MoreFrom the 13th Century to the 18th Century in a Day.
February 12th, 2017 On the road out of Ghent to Mehr. Casey Black on the stereo. “Fire, fire, fire, fire in my head tonight.” Roadblocks in Ghent thoroughly confused the…
Read MoreGood Morning from Liege
“I’m on a plain, I can’t complain!” Nirvana JFK – Brussels Feb 9th, 2017 I slept badly last night. I knew I would. New York did indeed do the perfect…
Read MoreTales of a Dublin Taxi Driver
Dublin Airport, Christmas Eve, 2016 After the gig last night I took a taxi from the Workman’s Club to The Clayton Dublin Airport Hotel. “What’s the strangest thing that ever…
Read MoreA Battle We Must Fight
Cork – Dublin Train – December 23rd, 2016 The 2.20pm train pulls slowly around the bend and out of Cork’s Kent station. Passing my old school red bricked and…
Read MoreNightswimming Deserves a Quiet Night
Sunday Dec 18th, 2016 Well I woke up in a beautiful apartment on Rue Emile Gilbert in Paris. I went to bed at Daly’s Inn, Donore, Co. Louth. Surely as…
Read MoreA Whole Other World
Hofbräuhaus, Munich – 16:00 December 12, 2016 I arrived back in Munich at 13.27, precisely as Deutsche Bahn predicted. I’ve been walking around the old town since. A bright winter’s…
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